Yesterday was like Christmas. My friend K from seminary came home, and he brought a bunch of things I purchased in Greece last summer. Since I was going on to Cyprus, I gave them to him to take home, but then when I didn’t go back to St. Tikhon’s, they were in Pennsylvania and I was in CA. For whatever reason, I neglected to pick them up when I retrieved all my other belongings. The most exciting thing he brought back was ΛΕΞΟ ΦΡΕΝΕΙΑ! As the box says, it is the “classic tabletop word game”—yes, Greek Scrabble! I’ve sought a Greek Scrabble set for years, and at last I have it. It was a little beat up from all its travels, but none of the pieces were hurt. Actually, I wasn’t too sure that it even was a Scrabble set, but it turns out that’s exactly what it is. “Τριπλή Αξία Λέχης!” I’ve even managed to wheedle three other guys into playing with me. Let me tell you, the Fuller student was very reluctant. What are they teaching at that liberal fortress?

My house rules will be Bring Your Own Dictionary, and anything goes as long as you can verify it. I’ll bring my Homeric lexicon, BDAG, and the big bad Oxford blues brothers. All dialects are fair game. Proper nouns are permitted. You can play any inflection you like, so long as you can name the form. (“Masculine dative plural perfect middle/passive participle!”) You must give a basic definition of the word you play.

This is going to rock!

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